Taz Ahmed
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Very Unbecoming
- By: Emily Kron, Kate Hopkins
- Narrated by: Zoë Chao, Esther Povitsky, Amy Sedaris
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 353
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 348
When two childhood best friends blow up their respective romantic relationships, they make a time-sensitive pact: serial-cheater Chuck cannot sleep with anyone as she attends a three-month-long recovery group for cheaters, while sex-deprived Sofia vows to hook up with as many people as possible before recommitting to monogamy and tying the knot with her long-time fiancé. To keep things interesting, Chuck and Sofia decide to revive a past tradition from their summer camp days—also known as the dawning of sluthood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hilarious
- By Rachel on 11-21-24
- Very Unbecoming
- By: Emily Kron, Kate Hopkins
- Narrated by: Zoë Chao, Esther Povitsky, Amy Sedaris
Best Audible Audio Play to Date
Reviewed: 03-12-25
The acting of these characters was so good! I was really pulled into their very different personalities and love the narrative set up and arch. Not enough stories get told about the tensions around friendship and this was so well done. And so funny and heartwarming. I want to see more from these characters and want to read more by these writers. also - I love that it's 4 hours long - enough to finish in a couple round-trip commutes but not too long to take over all your audio time for a couple of months. And it was so well produced! and what was that song???
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The Wangs vs. the World
- By: Jade Chang
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 455
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 419
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 417
Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family's ancestral lands - and his pride. Outrageously funny and full of charm, The Wangs vs. the World is an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America - and how going from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings one family together in a way money never could.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spectacular
- By Barbara on 10-11-16
- The Wangs vs. the World
- By: Jade Chang
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Fun Listen
Reviewed: 10-25-23
This book was really easy to listen to while going about the day. I felt a lot of anxiety reliving the recession but it was a good frame for a road trip story.
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Hijab Butch Blues
- A Memoir
- By: Lamya H
- Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 224
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 199
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Story5 out of 5 stars 200
When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown. Born in South Asia, she moved to the Middle East at a young age and has spent years feeling out of place, like her own desires and dreams don’t matter, and it’s easier to hide in plain sight. To disappear. But one day in Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam that changes everything: When Maryam learned that she was pregnant, she insisted no man had touched her.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- By Lauretta on 01-31-24
- Hijab Butch Blues
- A Memoir
- By: Lamya H
- Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
Believe the Hype
Reviewed: 09-30-23
Muslim memoirs can usually be campy but not this. The writer intertwines religiousity through stories of prophets and challenges the dogmatic thinking that she was raised with and sees in society. Her story takes a path which reminds me a lot of my own - going from isolation into finding a path rich of people similar to herself that challenge her to be better. Reader is great too.
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Excessive
- By: Dan Robert
- Narrated by: Chloe Fineman, Joshua Jackson, Meredith Hagner, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 210
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 194
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Story3 out of 5 stars 196
Excessive is a dark romantic comedy created by Emmy-Award winning writer Dan Robert, starring Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live, Father of the Bride, Babylon), Joshua Jackson (Dr. Death, The Affair, Dawson’s Creek), and an all-star cast including Amy Sedaris, Loni Love, Kim Cattrall, Meredith Hagner, Debbie Allen, Heidi Gardner, and Guillermo Díaz.
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5 out of 5 stars
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- By illiterate/left-handed/Aries on 03-24-23
- Excessive
- By: Dan Robert
- Narrated by: Chloe Fineman, Joshua Jackson, Meredith Hagner, Kim Cattrall, Dan Robert, Loni Love, Debbie Allen, Emily Skeggs, Amy Sedaris, full cast
what happened?
Reviewed: 06-29-23
I love a well produced audio drama, but I just couldn't follow along to the storyline! I had no idea what was going and eventually gave up. too bad since I love so many of the actors.
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The Startup Wife
- A Novel
- By: Tahmima Anam
- Narrated by: Tanha Dil
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story4 out of 5 stars 103
Meet Asha Ray. Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to make a scientific breakthrough when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones. Before she knows it, Asha has abandoned her lab, exchanged vows with Cyrus, and gone to work at an exclusive tech incubator called Utopia to develop an app called WAI — “We are Infinite.”
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1 out of 5 stars
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Sounds like if Siri made an audio book
- By Melissa Chase Levin on 07-14-21
- The Startup Wife
- A Novel
- By: Tahmima Anam
- Narrated by: Tanha Dil
I Give Up - Don't Waste Your Money!
Reviewed: 09-08-22
I couldn't even make it through the first chapter - this reader sounds like when the kid in junior high was made to read outloud and it was always monotonous. no punctuation, no intonation. I'm super disappointed I wasted money in this - I will just go get the paper book copy and read it myself.
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The Trouble with Hating You
- By: Sajni Patel
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 638
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 586
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 587
Strong-willed and proudly single, an engineer walks out when her parents set her up with a lawyer - but when work brings them together again, she just might give love a second chance.
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1 out of 5 stars
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What a disgusting book!
- By ninewest57th on 03-02-21
- The Trouble with Hating You
- By: Sajni Patel
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Triggering
Reviewed: 10-16-21
Whoa, this story tackled some serious topics -- didn't expect it from a romcom! still a fun read, but def more emotional and triggering than the usual Desi Rom Com book! No spoilers but you have been warned!
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Fade Out
- By: Kayleen Schaefer
- Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 17
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Story3 out of 5 stars 17
At 28, writer Kayleen Schaefer's brother was one of the most promising young filmmakers in Hollywood, having shot to success as the writer and director of "Chapter 27," starring future Oscar-winner Jared Leto as John Lennon’s killer Mark David Chapman. Then, five years later, to the surprise of those closest to him, he left it all behind - abandoning his career, his family and his life, without telling anyone where he was going.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting enough for $1.95
- By NMwritergal on 02-04-19
- Fade Out
- By: Kayleen Schaefer
- Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
Was Wondering Where He Went
Reviewed: 06-09-21
I was wondering what happened to my college friend and whether he got famous, and I guess I got my answer in this book. We should all have siblings write mid-life biopic novellas about their siblings life so that the rest of us can have a proper catchup without needing to make a phone call.
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Nadine
- By: Vimi Bajaj
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 51 mins
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 458
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Story3 out of 5 stars 460
In a quiet suburb of New Delhi, two next-door neighbors develop a friendship: one, a young woman engaged to be married, and the other, Nadine: a woman in her 60s living with her second husband. We follow these two women through their phone calls and visits together, diving deeper into Nadine's storied past: With her larger-than-life personality and proclivity to defy society's conventions, her insight weighs heavily on her young friend, about to face a major turning point of her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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True feminist. I think
- By rosalinda lam on 03-06-21
- Nadine
- By: Vimi Bajaj
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
pointless
Reviewed: 03-27-21
I do not understand what I just listened to and ended the book completely upset I had wasted my time on this. Don't bother, even if free. it's not worth your time. free!
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Milk Fed
- By: Melissa Broder
- Narrated by: Melissa Broder
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 536
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 458
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Story4 out of 5 stars 458
Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control through obsessive food rituals while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting - until her therapist encourages her to take a 90-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting. Rachel soon meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny and uncomfortable
- By Kayla on 04-01-21
- Milk Fed
- By: Melissa Broder
- Narrated by: Melissa Broder
Just Fine
Reviewed: 03-23-21
Was not as entertaining as The Pisces. And the calorie counting was triggering. She has mastered the ennui voice of the White Girl Angeleno. But I just had been hoping for more fun in this story.
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Nothing Like I Imagined
- (Except for Sometimes)
- By: Mindy Kaling
- Narrated by: Mindy Kaling
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,362
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,958
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,927
In these fresh and hilarious personal essays, Mindy Kaling gives the inside scoop on her new role as single mom, the perks of being her own husband, and how she deals with social anxiety even at the most glamorous A-list parties. In between, the beloved actress, writer, and Hollywood power-bruncher gets Kanye West’d at her best friend’s birthday, thwarts an “only in LA” crime, and learns what it means to have it all.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mindy is wonderful
- By Jen Kious on 10-12-20
- Nothing Like I Imagined
- (Except for Sometimes)
- By: Mindy Kaling
- Narrated by: Mindy Kaling
entertained
Reviewed: 11-19-20
I was entertaining and loved that she dug into her Desi side for these stories.
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